To understand what the ultra-orthodox have against the internet you must first understand the ultra-orthodox. (I am NOT ultra-orthodox, but understand them well.)
1) Time waster: Ultra-Orthodox Jew's believe that it's Gods will to study Torah for as much time as possible.
--Internet usage very easily turns into a a huge time waster. How many times have you found yourselves hours later in the same spot reading a blog or youtube video which you had no intention to see when you sat down at the computer? "Just one more link...", "Just one more video..".
2) Smut: Ultra-Orthodox Jew's aspire to purity of thought and vision.
--Fact- The Internet is FULL of easy to access smut from the privacy and anonymity of your home.
3) Womens attire: Have you ever seen how Ultra-orthodox women dress? That's right, they cover their hair with a hat or wig, wear long skirts, stockings and long sleeves even in the summer. Ultra-orthodox Jews believe it's inappropriate to gaze at women especially if they are not dressed according to their standards.
--News flash- women of the world don't dress like that. The internet is full of pictures, and unsurprisingly, the women in them are not blurred out.
4) Values: Ultra-orthodox are very insular. They stubbornly attempt to maintain their traditional values and educate their children with those values, many of which are not in tandem with the values of society at large.
--The internet is place where ideas and values are freely expressed. While generally thought of as a good thing- Ultra-Orthodox Jews see this as a risk since it is a place where they cannot control the education given to their children.
Of those points I think only point 4 could be the basis for a strong counter-argument. An alternative solution would be to expose their children to all freedoms of expression the internet has to offer and to explain why they feel their own point-of-view is correct. But to do that they will still need to figure out how to address points 1-3.
As the article stated the idea is to make people aware of the risks that unrestricted access to the Internet poses both to adults and to children. And to give them tools and ideas how to live with (or without) the internet in a effective and safe way. Internet addiction is a real thing as are the risks to children (not just Ultra-Orthodox Jew's children.) The purpose here is not to limit internet usage in the world or to impose a national censor but to protect their own community from the risks they see as evident.
I had never used iframes until I switched jobs and was tasked with upgrading a legacy application with literally hundreds of lines of javascript on many of the html pages- frequently set to run on onload(). Because a full rewrite was not an option- iframe came to be my salvation. Ajax just wouldn't have cut in this scenario.
Regardless of whether localstorage is the right tool I think people felt/feel no choice but to advocate it based on one all-important issue (saving grace?) "Browser Support". It would be nice to educate people and explain to them, don't try to use localstorage for any serious stuff, no querying, slow performance, etc. But what would you answer when they ask what's an alternative that I can use today? Based on http://caniuse.com/indexeddb it's not looking too good. I would suggest we continue to advocate its use, and at the same time add in a "but.. in the really near future" you should be switching. Is it great, no; But good enough for many use cases- I think so.
I don't know, there seems to be a lot of people here disagreeing. I agreed with most he had to say. I speak as someone who did exactly what he is describing- worked at huge company doing a pinhole role and going to a start-up doing end-to-end full stack (including DB stuff!) application. My technical skills were there but there was still a very big learning curve for all the frameworks out there. Especially since at large companies there is a lot more homegrown stuff and legacy infrastructure and at start-ups there is a ton of reliance on opensource. I agree that his statement only makes sense if they really have a lot of applicants then they can chose to be picky and maybe pass up top-talent like that until they get their feet wet. The flip-side of that coin is losing out on the opportunity, but again it only makes sense if all applicants are top-talent and they only need to choose between them.
I think it's a bit misleading. jQueryMobile is an official part of jQuery as is jQuery UI, and validation while considered a plugin is ostensibly "official" as the author is a jQueryUI core committer. So while Kendo might be operating under one GPL licensed roof, in the end if you consider all "Official" jQuery projects as one project, they offer a lot more and a MIT license!
I know you mentioned those projects as "See etc." but in my mind at least, it's just a question of marketing semantics of what should be considered one project.
1) Time waster: Ultra-Orthodox Jew's believe that it's Gods will to study Torah for as much time as possible. --Internet usage very easily turns into a a huge time waster. How many times have you found yourselves hours later in the same spot reading a blog or youtube video which you had no intention to see when you sat down at the computer? "Just one more link...", "Just one more video..". 2) Smut: Ultra-Orthodox Jew's aspire to purity of thought and vision. --Fact- The Internet is FULL of easy to access smut from the privacy and anonymity of your home. 3) Womens attire: Have you ever seen how Ultra-orthodox women dress? That's right, they cover their hair with a hat or wig, wear long skirts, stockings and long sleeves even in the summer. Ultra-orthodox Jews believe it's inappropriate to gaze at women especially if they are not dressed according to their standards. --News flash- women of the world don't dress like that. The internet is full of pictures, and unsurprisingly, the women in them are not blurred out. 4) Values: Ultra-orthodox are very insular. They stubbornly attempt to maintain their traditional values and educate their children with those values, many of which are not in tandem with the values of society at large. --The internet is place where ideas and values are freely expressed. While generally thought of as a good thing- Ultra-Orthodox Jews see this as a risk since it is a place where they cannot control the education given to their children.
Of those points I think only point 4 could be the basis for a strong counter-argument. An alternative solution would be to expose their children to all freedoms of expression the internet has to offer and to explain why they feel their own point-of-view is correct. But to do that they will still need to figure out how to address points 1-3.
As the article stated the idea is to make people aware of the risks that unrestricted access to the Internet poses both to adults and to children. And to give them tools and ideas how to live with (or without) the internet in a effective and safe way. Internet addiction is a real thing as are the risks to children (not just Ultra-Orthodox Jew's children.) The purpose here is not to limit internet usage in the world or to impose a national censor but to protect their own community from the risks they see as evident.